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Senate Republicans approve sales tax increase, cuts in income tax rates, lower food sales tax

What, being poor isn't enough of a burden? Do you seriously believe that the poor have no stake in the community because they pay no taxes? We essentially have a flat tax now - both state and federal. Only two state brackets and 4 federal. And if you are so in favor of a flat tax, then why not raise the cap on the FICA tax to include all income instead of the first $109,000? Isn't that fair?

May 24, 2013 at 8:26 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say

Actually that's now pretty common in other states. In Illinois it's 2%. In Indiana it's zero! Modern cash registers don't have a problem. If anything, zero on food would be a concession to the people the GOP doesn't care about.

May 23, 2013 at 12:20 p.m. ( | suggest removal )

Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say

Hey, I like having basements, unlike our neighbors.

May 23, 2013 at 9:46 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

Republican tax plans would increase state revenue, analyses say

Magic bean (counters).

May 23, 2013 at 8:41 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

Budget provision would block state funding for Common Core standards

Indiana did the same thing, after the local schools have already spend resources to to the preliminary work. I thought it was only the Army that dug ditches and then filled them in. Conservatives waste so much time hunting imaginary bogeymen. We live in a very mobile society. Children seldom finish school in the same school district that they started in. Many move to and from other states. The idea is to have as much as possible a universal model, so that students are learning pretty much the same things at the same grade level. I've sat in on school board meetings when this stuff is discussed (boring!). Hardly political. In many ways it's simply too much micro managing. But then, just like MBA's, what's the point of Ph.D.'s in Education if they don't have something to do? Far better them them than a bunch of legislators.

May 17, 2013 at 8:30 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

House Republicans outline new tax plan

For the vast majority of us math is math. If try to cut two types of taxes, you end up in lower revenues in the short term for sure, and most likely also in the long term. But for the GOP that still believes in spontaneous generation, cutting something = more of that something being created.

May 16, 2013 at 9:03 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

Brownback: Private GOP tax talks ‘going well’

When Obama did this with Obamacare, had control of the House and temporary control of the Senate, he was accused of ramming legislation down the throats of Americans. When he won't give up on changing the tax rates on upper earners in exchange for entitlement reform, he's accused of an unwillingness to compromise and exhibit bi-partisanship. In Kansas, we don't even bother. All hail, Brownbackistan.

May 14, 2013 at 8:18 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

Revenue secretary says tax cuts are working

Can we get any more apples and oranges, here? Last I checked, April is tax filing month. Possibly the increase in receipts is due to people you under withheld for the year and had to pay at the end. Perhaps it just means that more people are working - is that due to Brownback or those policies out of DC? (Or just as likely - independent of both). And these are the "individual" tax receipts - what of the business receipts, and the total revenue taken in? Brownback's tax changes simply now allow pass through of partnership earnings to the individuals. The question is what was lost as a result of the change?

May 6, 2013 at 8:29 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

State officials working overtime to keep up with concealed-carry permits

Mine go back to the Abolitionists, farmed, worked the WPA (and still didn't vote for FDR), and don't feel a need for concealed carry. You miss the point - it's hardly a priority to devote any over time to this task. Any over time and staff should be assigned elsewhere. People can wait.

May 3, 2013 at 11:04 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

State officials working overtime to keep up with concealed-carry permits

How about devoting overtime and staff to shutting down meth labs? Or investigating medical provider Medicaid fraud? Or dozens of other far more pressing things. Again, they aren't taking your guns away. They're just giving you the right to be a bigger yahoo than you already are.

May 3, 2013 at 8:22 a.m. ( | suggest removal )

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